Procurement Agent
About The Position
Trident Consulting is seeking a Procurement Agent 3 for one of our clients, a global leader in business and technology services, located in Rosemead, CA. This is a hybrid onsite role, requiring presence on Mondays and Tuesdays, and as needed. The position involves negotiating pricing, contract terms, and conditions; preparing contractual documents; integrating program and customer strategies into source selection; developing procurement solutions; supporting senior procurement agents with project management; developing supplier strategies; and assisting in the creation of production control improvement plans. The role also requires developing an understanding of supplier capacity and ensuring production readiness and health throughout the supply chain, including monitoring sub-tier suppliers. Frequent engagement with multiple organizational leaders is expected. Additional responsibilities include contributing to process improvements, cost reduction initiatives, root cause analysis, risk mitigation, supplier risk assessments, and supplier performance reviews. The role also involves employing project management tools to analyze and manage supplier performance across technical, quality, cost, and schedule aspects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- Typically possesses five or more years of experience in negotiating and purchasing.
- Thorough knowledge and demonstrated ability to apply principles of financial analysis, activity based costing and supply chain methodology.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with customers and suppliers and gather client requirements and negotiate their support requirements.
- Ability to apply mastery of in-depth knowledge in one job family or broader expertise in most areas of a job function.
- Ability to apply extensive technical expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines.
- Ability to determine methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other team members.
- Ability to exercise judgment and discretion to advise and recommend courses of action, which have a moderate Corporate impact or moderate to major departmental or business unit impact.
- Authority to negotiate to resolve differences.
- Ability to make independent decisions when recommending appropriate scope and strategies.
- Ability to guide the successful completion of major programs, projects and objectives and may function in a project leadership role.
Nice To Haves
- Minimum of five years of experience supporting telecom, wireless and/or carrier services categories
- Strong knowledge contracting and negotiating agreements for networking services.
Responsibilities
- Negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers and prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of technical equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software or components
- Acquires and maintains understanding of technology trends, market forces, cost trends and supplier technology road maps
- Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to organization policy and discusses defects and delivery problems with suppliers and negotiates refunds
- Reviews and negotiates company-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work
- Identifies, drives, and implements suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization
- Negotiates contracts and reviews opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
- Understands and applies business tools (financial, logistical, commercial, risk, cost analysis, etc.) to attain desired results
- Identifies and executes purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research
- Ensures that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed
- Develops and establishes category management in accordance with the overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes and procedures and ensures category management delivers against targets and objectives
- Develop skills and knowledge to become subject matter expert in managed spend categories
- Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities, assessing current and future business processes for best work practice, as well as innovative procurement solutions that provide cost savings and process efficiencies for the organization
- Establishes strong business relationships with key business partners and clients across Operating Units and external organizations
- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private information.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
